Gov. Ododo to swear in, assign portfolios to screened, cleared Kogi Commissioner’s Tomorrow.
In his determination to hit the ground running as promised the people of Kogi State, Gov. Usman Ahmed Ododo will tomorrow Wednesday swear in the recently screened and cleared Commissioner Designate.
The swearing in is expected to hold at the Glass House, Government House tomorrow wednesday by 12:00noon.
The State House of Assembly today at it sitting screened and cleared 16 Commissioner Nominees and nine other Nominees with portfolios nominated by the new State Governor, Alhaji Usman Ododo.
The Nigerian Post reports that among the 16 screened commissioner nominees, 7 are returnees while 9 are new ones.
The seven commissioner returnees are: Salami Ozigi-Deedat, Bashiru Abubakar-Gegu, Wemi Jones, Kingsley Fanwo, Timothy Ojoma, Asiwaju Idris-Asiru and Mohammed Abdulmutalib.
The nine new commissioner nominees screened by the house are: Farouk Danladi,
Adams Abdulaziz, Joseph Oluwasegun-Stephen (JOS), Muzi Yinusa-Abdullahi, Rabiatu Okute,
Fatima Momoh, Mohammed Yusuf,
Sunday Faleke and Abanika Taye
Other nominees with portfolios, whose names were sent to the house for confirmation are: Ali Bello – Chief of Staff to the governor, Hilary Ojoma – Deputy Chief of Staff, Elijah Evinemi – Head of service.
Jerry Omodara – State Security Adviser and Isah Ismail – Special Adviser on Media.
The rest are: Sulaiman Ibrahim – Director General Protocol, Oladele John Nihi – Chief Press Secretary,
Shaibu Oricha – Director General Government House Administration and Femi Adegboyega – State Legal Adviser.
Sequel to time lag as claimed by the house, all the 16 commissioner nominees only appeared, introduced themselves and took a bow and left without answering a single question from the lawmakers.
The speaker of the house, Alhaji Umar Yusuf, commended members of the house for a job well done at screening the 25 nominees, whom he described as credible and qualified sons and daughters of Kogi.
Yusuf tasked the nominees to live up to expectations of Gov Ododo, whom he said nominated them to assist him pilot the affairs of the state to greater height.